Akọ́mọlédè Yorùbá

Láti máa kọ́ àwọn ènìyàn ní èdè abínibí wá (Yorùbá) jákèjádò gbogbo àgbáyé, àti láti máa gbé àṣà Yorùbá lárugẹ

[Akọ́mọlédè Yorùbá @akomolede25]

@foundation2006 @UtomiPat I used to like him too but politics is a revealer

[Akọ́mọlédè Yorùbá @akomolede25]

Politics really unraveled you 🤦‍♂️

[Pat Utomi @UtomiPat]

Norway uses its oil wealth to support public services, including education. Young Norwegian students can attend public universities without tuition fees, while children benefit from free public primary and secondary education. Nigeria is also an oil-producing country, we should borrow a leaf from Norway and turn our oil wealth into better schools, affordable university education, and opportunities for young people.

Our natural resources should improve the lives of our people, not just enrich a few, stop defending the politicians who are impoverishing you with their inhumane policies.

[Akọ́mọlédè Yorùbá @akomolede25]

@TheEbayMichael @SalmanDuke @Adaete1 @UtomiPat You just couldn't keep up with intelligent discussion, I pity the guy responding to you, he must have been thinking if he explain better you'll get it so generous of him not knowing that you are a lost cause

[Akọ́mọlédè Yorùbá @akomolede25]

@foundation2006 @UtomiPat Politics really exposed that man

[Akọ́mọlédè Yorùbá @akomolede25]

This is historical anachronysm at it worst! Remo, Ẹgba and Ketu are all children of Ọbàlùfọ̀n, how ok earth did you arrive at the conclusion that they were not all the same? A part of the Ẹ̀gbá group (Agura) are related to the Ọ̀yọ́, etc they are all connected

[Auggie The Serenading Psychic (🚰❤️‍🔥♣️) @CryptoMuse01]

Do you know how crazy it is that some of the tribal identities we are so fixated on were engineered by Oyinbo?

Let’s use the “Yoruba peoples” tribal identity as an instance.

The Yoruba tribal peoplehood was artificially engineered for easier colonial administration.

We were not a monolithic group. The Ẹkiti, Òndó, Ìjẹ̀bú, Ẹgba, Ìjẹ̀ṣà, Ìgbómìnà and others were not always “Yorubas.”

If you time-travelled to 1825 and insisted that an Ẹgba person was Yoruba, they might not only be confused — it is likely that they could be offended.

Treating Yoruba as an ancient, primordial tribe is anachronistic and historically indefensible.

It is well documented that the word “Yoruba” was an exonym — a tag given by outsiders. Ahmad Baba of Timbuktu used “Yariba” around 1613–1615 for the Oyo. Northern traders (Hausa and others) applied it specifically to the Oyo peoples.

In fact, there is no evidence of self-use of the word Yoruba by the precolonial Oyo peoples themselves as a broad ethnic label, and none whatsoever among the non-Oyo groups.

During the Kiriji Wars (1877–1893), the Ẹkiti-Parapọ alliance (Ẹkiti, Ìjẹ̀ṣà and allies including elements of Ìjẹ̀bú, Ẹgba, Ìgbómìnà and others) fought the Ibadan military state (heir to Oyo imperial power) for autonomy. It was not Yoruba fighting Yoruba — they were independent nations fighting to protect their sovereignty.

So how did everyone become Yoruba?

The colonialists homogenized all of us by mechanically standardizing the Ọ̀yọ́-Ìbàdàn speech into a uniform, artificial written language called Yorùbá Àjùmọ̀lò.

Samuel Ajayi Crowther’s 1843 Vocabulary of the Yoruba Language (and subsequent Bible work) was based on the Oyo dialect. To save money on printing Bibles and schoolbooks, European recategorized distinct languages as “local dialects.”

Then, through Lord Lugard’s Native Authority system after the 1914 Amalgamation (formalized in the Native Authority Ordinance of 1916 and later revisions), the British state turned this missionary work into a tool of governance.

Our ancestors became stuck in rigid “tribal” census categories, they appointed standardized rulers to collect taxes, and turned sovereign citizens of independent city-states and republics into predictable, manageable colonial subjects.
Yes, this identity is real today. But its reality is relatively modern, administrative, and politically charged, not primordial.

Many of us mistakenly wear our tribal identity as though it were a sacrosanct, eternal or primordial delineation: it is not.

Like the Yoruba tribal categorization, many others are just neat little folders they fostered to organize us.

If it was a bond formed for your enemy’s convenience, then it is malleable enough to be reformed for strategic survival, defense, and collective prosperity.

[Akọ́mọlédè Yorùbá @akomolede25]

@MisterBayo_ @realpaulisco @Letter_to_Jack Na to uproot am again go bury am for one village after Osiele be dat

[Akọ́mọlédè Yorùbá @akomolede25]

@AbefeOlale1358 @jack_kevin26810 @B0lutife @grok You here are the gaslighter, whne Islam destroy your land you run to other people's land and start demanding what destroys your land. How foolish could anyone be?

[Akọ́mọlédè Yorùbá @akomolede25]

@AbefeOlale1358 @B0lutife @grok America bombed northern Nigeria that make Northerners relocate to Lagos? 🤔

[Akọ́mọlédè Yorùbá @akomolede25]

@InsideOta @EOyigi can you see what our people are doing?

[Akọ́mọlédè Yorùbá @akomolede25]

@MrGabby008 @InsideOta People wey no wise

[Akọ́mọlédè Yorùbá @akomolede25]

@JephIhemebiri @ARISEtv What is this ret@rded f00l saying?

[Akọ́mọlédè Yorùbá @akomolede25]

@tyewoolove The place is called Ẹlẹ́rẹ̀ Àdùbí. Thank you for bringing this here

[Akọ́mọlédè Yorùbá @akomolede25]

@coolxpretty @framauemmanuel1 The biggest foooooool 😂

[Akọ́mọlédè Yorùbá @akomolede25]

@framauemmanuel1 This generation is damn lost! Whenever they misbehave they find a justification for it. See the way she's screaming

[Akọ́mọlédè Yorùbá @akomolede25]

@originalproflle Asking the president to resign is not an insult

[Akọ́mọlédè Yorùbá @akomolede25]

@JephIhemebiri @ARISEtv You have to appeal to stupidity, you bypass law and claim victim. Olófo

[Akọ́mọlédè Yorùbá @akomolede25]

@yorubachic These people are mad, simply mad nothing more

[Akọ́mọlédè Yorùbá @akomolede25]

@AluyaPov What is the problem of police with charm? When did it become illegal to use charm?

[Akọ́mọlédè Yorùbá @akomolede25]

But you can force a widow to drink water from the body of her dead husband, you only draw the line when it is not your culture. Ọmọ ìrankíran

[Preach Ojukwu 🇮🇪 @TrendfusionNG]

Our ancestors were forced to bow. must their descendants still lie down?

1. There is a photograph circulating of a man, suspected to be Segun, lying face down on uneven ground before a former governor of Ekiti State.

2. One man believed to be Fayose stands. Another lies beneath him.

3. We are told this is culture.

4. That we must tolerate it.

5. That we must mind our business.

6. But must culture always escape moral examination?

7. For those of us conscious of the historical trauma of slavery, this image is deeply unsettling.

8. It evokes the relationship between master and slave.

9. One upright. Another lowered to the earth.

10. One receiving submission. Another performing it.

11. The symbolism is difficult to ignore.

12. I recognise that Yoruba prostration traditionally expresses respect, not enslavement.

13. Yet cultural intention does not erase the discomfort of those who see echoes of historical humiliation in such gestures.

14. Mary Slessor challenged the killing of twins, a practice once defended through traditional beliefs.

15. Had every outsider remained silent in the name of cultural tolerance, how many lives might have been lost? Would we have had a P Square?

16. Culture deserves understanding. But it also deserves questioning.

17. We cannot invoke national unity to demand silence from Nigerians who find certain practices disturbing.

18. Our ancestors experienced the indignity of being reduced to property.

19. Their descendants should be free to question rituals that remind them of that degradation, even when others attach entirely different meanings to those rituals.

20. Nigeria is our common country.

21. Its cultures are open to respectful examination by every Nigerian.

22. I do not demand that anyone abandon their traditions because I find them uncomfortable.

23. Equally, nobody should demand that I celebrate what troubles my conscience.

24. And should anyone ever expect me, an Igbo Nigerian, to lie flat on the ground before another human being simply because he occupies a higher social position, my answer is simple.

25. The only day I intend to lie motionless before another man is the day I am dead.

[Akọ́mọlédè Yorùbá @akomolede25]

@AIT_Online They must reject it outrightly